Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17756, Joseph Eldredge, Conn.

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Eldredge, Joseph Eldridge
W. 17756
Rhoda
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Connecticut 50295.
Rhoda Eldridge widow of Joseph Eldridge, decd. Conn. who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 14 th Dec r 1830 of Hartford Co in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Parker of the Regt commanded by Col. Sage in the Connecticut line for 7 months private
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of February, 1840 and paid to Joseph Hartford, E. Wind, Hill, 6 th
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1840 $93.32 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th March, 1840 11.61
$104.93
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliott Clerk. Book A Vol. 2 Page 179.

Windsor, Nov. 10th, 1806. I received from you that the Dispen- sation is a Gradual Person, as shown to me. Jesse Charlton Inst. of Peace.
NEW TESTAMENT
OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK, AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.
Ὅσπερ γὰρ ἐν τῷ Ἀδὰμ πάντες ἀποθνήσκουσιν, οὕτως καὶ ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ πάντες ζωοποιηθήσονται. 1 Cor. xv. 22.
Boston. PRINTED FOR THOMAS & ANDREWS, BY J. T. BUCKINGHAM. SOLD AT THEIR BOOKSTORE, NO. 45 NEWBURY-STREET, AND BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED STATES. ..... 1806.

Joseph Eldredge Born February 28 th 1759
Joseph Eldredge & Rhoda Goodeale were Lawfully joined in Marriage August 22 nd 1779
Rhoda Eldredge born 26 th March
Ducas. October 5 th 1782 } 1780
Elizabeth Born September 23 1781
Rhoda Born May 6 th 1784
Abigail Born September 19 th 1786
Calista Born November 22 nd 1788
Esther Born June 2 nd 1790
Freeman Born November 10 th 1792
I Rhoda Eldridge do hereby depose that the above is the oldest record I possess of my marriage & age & that the record is true. Rhoda Eldredge
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5 th day of December 1839 at East

State of Connecticut Hartford County, ss.
On this 25 th day of December A 1839. personally appeared, before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford  East Windsor in the County & State aforesaid; Rhoda Eldridge, a resident of said East Windsor; aged Eighty two years. who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed the 7 th day of July 1838. entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain Widows." That she is the Widow of Joseph Eldridge, late of Willington, in Tolland County Connecticut; who was a private in the army of the Revolution, & served in two distinct periods of that War. That he served in Captain Jonathan Parkers company, which was attached to Col s Sages Regiment, and served in the Campaign at New York, from about the 20 of June 1776, to on or about the first day of Jan y 1777. for a period of about Six months and a half. And again, in the year 1778, the year before she was married, (as she lived near him & knew him well, at that time, she remembers well that he was drafted to go to New London in Connecticut for a period of two months, and that he went and performed a tour of duty of that length of time, as a private soldier, It is her impression & belief that he served at this time in the company of } ~~~~~ } ~~~~~ } ~~~~~
She further declared, that she was married to the said Joseph Eldridge, in the town of Willington aforesaid on the 22 nd day of August Seventeen hundred & twenty nine, That her husband the above said Joseph Eldridge, died at said Willington on the 14 th day of December 1830, Nine years the present December.

That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January A D 1794, Viz at the time above stated.
Signed Rhoda Eldridge
Sworn to and subscribed, before said probate court on the day and year first written.
In testimony whereof, I Bezalel Sexton, Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of East Windsor in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before said court, this day, in the matter of the application of Mrs Rhoda Eldridge, Widow of Joseph Eldridge, late of Wilmington aforesaid for a Pension whereupon I do herunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said court at East Windsor aforesaid on this 26 th day of December A D 1829.
Bezalel Sexton. Clerk.
Rhoda Eldridge

Joseph Eldridge Marriage Town Clerk

I Gideon N Merick Town Clerk and Register of the Town of Wellington in Tolland County Connecticut do hereby certify that in the Public records of Marriages kept in this office I find an entry, in its regular place, in the series of entries in the following terms.
Joseph Eldredge and Rhoda Goodale were Lawfully Joined in Marriage August Twenty Second, Seventeen Hundred & Seventy nine.
The above is a true extract from the record with the exception of the date, which is entered in the original record in plain and legible figures, as follows; August 22 nd 1779
I Gideon N Merick above named depose and say; That I hold the office of Town Clerk, of Wellington in the County of Tol- land, and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Wellington with the exception above named as certified by me.
Gideon N Merick Town Clerk
Sworn before me, And I certify that the sd Gideon N Merick — is Town Clerk & Regis- ter of said Town of Wellington & a credible person, Done at Wellington aforesaid, on this 24 th day of September A 1839
Hiram Piden Justice of the Peace

Rhoda Eldridge m. 79 5 Joseph d. ~1830.
'76 6 mo. Parker. for Sage.
'78 2
Allan 7 mo

Rhoda Eldridge wid of Joseph Conn Ait July 7 1838 Married 1779 died 1830
Also 7mo private $23.33 per ann Conn militia capt Parker Col Sage
Jps. Chaffee Esq East Windsor Hill Conn

East Windsor Hill, Hartford County Conn. Jan d 3 rd 1840
Sir. I herewith transmit the application of Mrs Rhoda Eldridge, Widow of Joseph Eldridge, for a pension; under the act of July 1838. & am Sir, with the highest respect.
Your obed t Servant. Jesse Charlton
Hon ble J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
Rev
File No. 17756
Rhoda Eldridge
Wid. of
Joseph Eldridge
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 7. 1838
Index:—Vol. 64 , Page 215
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Solomon Fenton of Willington Holland Conn and state of Connecticut a Pensioner for m. services as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Depose and say that I was well acquainted with Joseph Eldridge late of Willington afore said now deceased and that the said Joseph Eldridge enlisted as a soldier under Capt Jonathan Parkers of said Willington for a term of six months that said enlistment took place in April or May in the year 1776 And this deponent further says that said Capt. Jonathan Parkers company was attached to Col. Gages Battalion and that said company and among them the said Joseph Eldridge Marched from said Willington for New York in the public service - This Deponent further says that on the 16th of August 1776 he this Deponent Marched for New York in the Militia in the company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Heath of said Will- ton and that a few days after this deponent arrived at New York Col. Gages Regiment or Battalion retreated from Governor Island below New York and came in to New York and that he this deponent then and there saw the said Joseph Eldridge in the public service and conversed with him and others of Capt Parkers company. This Deponent further says that he this deponent returned home sick in the month of October 1776 leaving Joseph Eldridge then on duty - and that soon
Solomon Fenton for Eldridge

1. The best recollection of this Deponent the said Joseph Eldridge returned home late in the month of Decr 1876 and has no doubt but that he served at that time the full term of six months as this deponent had a Brother out six months in the same company with the said Joseph Eldridge And this deponent further says that the said Joseph Eldridge resided in this town up to the time of his death which took place several years since and that the present Widow Rhoda Eldridge formerly Rhoda Goodale is the identical person who lived with the said Joseph Eldridge and brought up a family of children And further this deponent with not dated Willington the 23 rd day of October 1839 Solomon Fenton
State of Connecticut Holland County ss Willington October 23 rd 1839 Personally appeared Solomon Fenton who subscribed the foregoing Deposition who is personally known to me to be a credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed Before me Hiram Rider Justice Peace

I Jabez Kingsbury a resident of Tolland in the county of Tolland Connecticut, Do hereby depose & say, that in the year 1776 I performed a tour of duty in the army of the Revolution I enlisted under Lieut Kinkley in the new Levies or State Troops in the Spring of that year for a period of eight months. That we marched thro Hartford & New Haven & Stratford to New York, our company was commanded by Capt Jonathan Parker from Willington our company a part of them went over onto the jersey side of the North River, & a part on Governor Island but when the enemy came to take possession on the city of New York our company was there & were driven out to Harlem Heights & thence to West Chesler & from there to White Plains.
There served in our company one or two men by the name of Eldridge but their Christian name I do not recollect as they were from another town & I have not been acquainted with them since the war I receive a pension.
Jabez Kingsbury
State of Connecticut } Tolland County } So Tolland
On this 30 th day of September A 1839 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton Notary Public of & for the State of Connecticut at Deacon Jabez Kingsbury a resident of said Tolland a credible & respectable man & a revolution ary pensioner who then & there subscribed the foregoing Deposition in my presence, & made solemn Oath to the truth of the same before me, in testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name

and affix my Seal of Office on the day & year above named
Attest Jesse Charlton, Notary Public
See John P. King's copy

Jos Eldridge Marriage Lora Holt

I Lois Hott of Willington County of Tolland State of Connecticut - do hereby depose and say that I. was present and witnessed the ceremony when Joseph Eldridge & Rhoda Goodale were married to each other in Willington in Tolland County Connecticut by the Rev. Gideon Noble then Pastor of the Congregational Church in said Town and my impression & belief is that it was sixty years the past Summer
Lois Hott
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25 th Day of September 1839 and the said Lois Hott is a credible person
Rufus Prider Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut } Lebanon New London County - } ss
On the 30th Day of Octob r , 1839
W m Williams of Lebanon aforesaid Personally appeared before me, (one of the Justices of the Peace in & for New London County aforesaid) & after being sworn as the Law Directs, made Oath, that the Within is a true Copy of a Capt n Jonathan Parkers Company in Col o Tages Regiment, raised in 1776: & that the Original has been in My possession many years -
Sworn to & Subscribed the Day & year last aforesaid
In presence
W m Williams
Eliz th Huntington
W m Williams aforesaid Personally ap- peared before me the Day & year last a- foresaid & made Oath to the truth of the aforesaid Statement attest Eliz th Huntington Justice of Peace

A Muster Roll of Captain Jonathan Parkers company Col d Huges Regiment 1776. 6 th Company Wellington
Captain Jonathan Parker, First Lt Ichabod Hinckley Second Lt Timothy Holt. Ens Jos Ruder & 2 Brooks Serg Samuel Danton
John Huntington Peter Whitney Jedidiah Amadon Benjamin Hinckley Ashbel Chapman Elisha Johnson, Gould Stiles Abraham Weston Druin. Gideon Noble Piper Daniel Johnson Daniel Lee Bethuel Robinson Solomon Cushman David Hinckley Jebulon Crocker Caleb Holt Samuel Marick Ezra Holmes Daniel Pool Barry Fenton Calvin Johnson, Nathan Tuttle John Tophiff Nathaniel Fenton, Adonijah Fenton Jedidiah Lee Isaac Johnson Eliphalet Cushman, George Merick David Tuttle, John Pool
Samuel Eldridge William Stiles Jabez Flint Ephraim Spalding Nathaniel Rude, Joseph Eldridge Stephen Rice, Allen Carpenter William Heath, Joseph Dimock Caleb Johnson Samuel Hershins, Daniel Nye, Stephen Taylor, William Tole, David Tole, Moses Barnard Jonas Tole Stephen Grover, Caleb Carlton Elijah Whitney John Coltrain Jabez Kingsbury, Jeduthan Cole, Abner Hatch Daniel Newhall, Nathan Carpenter, Abner Johnson James Darby John Johnson Asahel Tinstliff Perez Tinkham Isaac Fellow Moses Amadon John Scripture Festus Thompson
Nathan Harvey Amos Cobb George White Elisha Steele

I Abigail Greene of East Windsor, in Hartford County Connecticut Do hereby depose, & say; that I was acquainted with Joseph Eldridge, formerly of Willington in Tolland County Connecticut, & with his wife the present widow Rhoda Eldridge, from my youth & childhood, & I am now 53 years of age I am well knowing to the fact that the said Joseph Eldridge lived with the said Rhoda, as his wife, from the time of my earliest recollection, say 50 years ago; down to the period of his death. And I am well knowing to the fact that the said Joseph Eldridge, died in said Willington on the 14 th Day of December A 1830; & the widow has never again intermarried.
Abigail green
State of Connecticut Hartford County, ss East Windsor, On this 5 th day of December A 1839, personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton, one of the Justices of the peace for Hartford County, Mrs Abigail Green, a credible person, with whom I am acquainted, who then and there signed the foregoing certificate in my presence, and then and there made solemn Oath to the truth of the same. Before me. Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace.

I Henry Kilborn Comptroller of Public accounts for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify That in the Books & files of the late payable of the Revolutionary War remaining in this office I find the following proof of the Services of Captain Jonathan Parker in the American Army in the year 1776
Dr Capt Jonathan Parker    1776 June 21 To order on Treasurers  £ 580  11  11    1777 March 21 To Do Do  89  13  0    April 3 To Do Do State Arms returned  52  17  2    To Balance credited in new acct  10  00  3    Contra Sages Regiment  732  10  5    1777 April 3 d By his acct rendered  732  10  5    And there are no Rolls of his company in this office
Dated at the Comptrollers Office in Hartford this 3 rd day of January 1840
Henry Kilborn Compt

I Royal R Hinman, Secretary of State for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify, That the General Assembly, of the Colony of Connecticut at their Session in Hartford in said State in May, 1776 Did order and direct that six Battalions be raised and march directly to New York to serve until the 25 th day of December 1776, unless sooner discharged. And that Comfort Sage was appointed Colonel of the third Battalion in said Corps And that Jonathan Parker was appointed Command to be Captain of the Sixth Company in said third Battalion.
I further certify, That Hiram Rider Esq, and Ralph Rider Esq, before whom the annexed dispositions of Gideon M'Nerick & Solomon Norton
and Lois Hall were taken, are both Lawful Justices of the Peace for the County of Tolland in Connecticut, & have been for more than four months last past, & that their signatures to the annexed certificates are genuine.
And I further certify, That Jesse Burrlton Esq, before whom the annexed certificates of Rhoda Eldridge & Abigail Green were taken is a Lawful Justice of the Peace for Hartford County Conn and here taken is at this time and has been for more than six months last past a Lawful Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut, & that his signature to the annexed certificates are genuine.
I further certify That Eliphalet Huntington before whom the annexed Disposition of W m J Williams was taken, is at this time & has been for more than four months last past a Lawful Justice of the Peace for the

County of New London, in said State that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine And the said William J Williams, is a gentleman with whom I have been acquainted many years and he is a respectable man & a credible witness.
Yeziel H. Hinman Secretary of said State
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